New
England delegation: UMC’s identity and unity must be spiritual, not structural

This essay comes from the New England Conference delegation to General
Conference.

In 2012 the United Methodist Church came of age. We may not know it yet, but
when the motion to adjourn General Conference came at 10:45 on Friday evening,
May 4, from Joey Lopez of North Carolina, we were launched from the cozy
confines of the nest that had sheltered us for the last 44 years into a new
world that we can hardly begin to imagine.